Railway-tie.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

s. c. NBWLIN & G. W. WILLIAMS. RAILWAY TIE.

AIPLIOATION FILED APB-.19, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT ornica.

STANLEY C. NEWLIN A ND GEORGE W.

WILLIAMS, OI ANDERSON, INDIANA.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Application filed April 19, 1907. Serial. No. 369,189.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STANLEY'C. NEwLiN and. GEORGE l/V.'VVILLIAMS, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of -Anderson, Madison county, and State of Inand as long as necessary for ties of different lengths to accommodate two or more rails. W is a piece of hard wood four by fiveinches square and fourteen inches longin standard ties (for the rails to rest upon) to (.liilvi'fillt lengths as may be necessary to accommodate two or more rails. at switches. Zis a piece of wood, two by three inches square, by three feet and nine inches long connecting pieces in standard ties.

Z is a piece of wood two by three inches square by seven and one half inches long in standard ties extending from the outerend of W to the end of ties or longer or shorter for different lcngthties'. Y desig nates two pieces of wood one inch thick by one-and one half inches wide extending. the full length of the ties. v

Fig. is a side View of the skeleton of the Hoosier tie'before the cement is applied to the cavities and to the external surfaces.

F jg. 4 shows'a section through the tie at the resting lace of the rails WV being the piece of hart wood, four by five inches square' mentioned above, to which rails 'are' spiked by ordinaryiron railroad spikes.

Fig. 5 shows a section through the tie at its middle portion. a P. is cement. which fills all cavities andecnvelops the tie in its entirety except upon the face of W which is left bare to accommodate the rails.

-All wooden parts are to be placed in direct is clieap and light,

apposition and securely fastened to each other by firmly nailing them together. All cavities except an interval 0 one sixteenth inch wide in the middle of the tie and all extei'nal surfaces except 0 one sixteenth inch widcin middle of tie should be covered with cement; this space 0 is left vacant of cement in order to accommodate the inward and downward bending of the tie while trains of cars are passing over them.

It will be seen that by the conjunction or combination of tlic'wooden frame composedof a wooden base i\ and superposed bars or strips Y, Y, Z, spaced apart, and the cement covering or envelo we produce a tie which but strong and rigid, and possesses great durability.

The tie is much stronger and more rigid than one having a single wooden bar whose cross section equals the aggregate cross sec-- tion of the several smaller parallel bars, X,

'Y, Y, and Z, for the reason t iatthe lattcr are s accd apart and secured together so that t icy form a skeleton frame.

What we claim .is--- l The improved tie composed of a wooden basc'X, and three wooden strips Y, Y and Z, secured thereon and spaced from each other laterally, the central strip Z being the larger,

and an iiiclosing body of cement applied as shown and described.

2. The in'iprovcd he composed of a wooden skeleton formed of a base piece, parallclstrips Y, Y and Z, secured thereon and spaced apart laterally, and rail-supporting \V0()( b ocks W resting on the base and the out the frame, save the said blocks, as shown and described.

STANLEY NJCWLIN. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

LEO L. VViLLiAMs,

Lnwis D. GRAHAM.

strips Y, and the body of cement covering all 4 

